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>>>>> Arne Elofsson <arne@rune.biokemi.su.se> writes:

 > I think the best solution is the one I use, and I would really like
 > more people to use it. I use mh for mailsplitting, and creation of
 > active and .overview files. Then I use nnml for reading mails.

Hmm.  But nnml doesn't do any locking of active or .overview files, so
you're probably introucing a really nasty race condition by doing
this.

This idea gests proposed reasonably frequently, but has never gained
widespread acceptance because of the potential for bad things
happening.

--Paul